Al-Watan al-Arabi bombing

The al-Watan al-Arabi bombing occurred on 22 April 1982 when the Organization of Armed Struggle bombed the offices of the Arab-language newspaper al-Watan al-Arabi on the Rue Marbeuf in Paris, France, killing 1 person and injuring 63. The terrorists were hired by Syria to attack the newspaper after it wrote a story blaming Syria for the assassination of French embassy official Louis Delamare, and the organization's leader Carlos the Jackal arranged for a female German associate of his to drive a car, rigged with a bomb, from Ljubljana in Slovenia to Paris. She parked the car in front of the building, and it blew up in front of the office, sending a message to the newspaper. France's suspicions about Syrian involvement in Delamare's assassination were confirmed, and France expelled two top Syrian diplomats from the country. The bombing was one of many terrorist attacks carried out by Carlos against France, occurring soon after the 29 March 1982 Paris-Toulouse TGV train bombing.